Oral Arguments. By law, the U.S. Supreme Court's term begins on the first Monday in October and goes through the Sunday before the first Monday in October of the following year. The Court is, typically, in recess from late June/early July until the first Monday in October.
In the 1890s a lady named Mary Whiton Calkins finished all her requiriments needed for her PhD in philosphy in Harvard but in the University of Harvard denyed and refused to give her award degree because she was a girl.
